Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:22:15 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Thomas Cannon <tcannon@noops.org> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?adrian=20kok?= <adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk>, <edwin@mavetju.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mrtg Message-ID: <20020130132153.R72797-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20020130100052.B585-100000@stereophonic.noops.org>
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Thomas Cannon wrote: > > On the FreeBSD machine, you need to tell syslogd to open a listening > > socket at 514/udp as well as actually accept remote messages. To do this, > > add the following to /etc/rc.conf: > > > > syslogd_flags="" > > > > While this will work as advertized, it does also allow other people to log > to your machine. Potential problems are a) people can fill your hard drive > for laughs and b)if syslogd has a security problem, you've now got one, > too. > > Man syslogd explains how to use the -a flag for an 'allowed peer' which > I'd encourage using. Excellent point. Joe > > I tend to be a little paranoid, but it hasn't hurt me yet. > > Thomas > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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